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A Week of Diversions:
November 24 - November 30

Updated Nov. 24, 2000 2:15 p.m. ET

Charles V: The Legacy of a 'Christian Hercules' When Spin Doctors Used Paintbrushes

"It is quite important," wrote Erasmus of Rotterdam in his "Education of a Christian Prince" in 1515, "that artists depict the prince with the seriousness and vestments worthy of the solemn and the wise."